Re: Proposal "LUID"

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 08:32:28 EST


> The only way for this kind of program to workaround unexecutable
> stack is to mprotect the stack...
> So what do you do ? do you fix all the program... or the kernel ?

On x86 you cannot easilly handle a no-exec stack. Solar Diz patches use
segments and a lot of magic to sort of do it. On sane architectures you can
do it in ld.so without kernel help - using mprotect

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